I know there have been times when you’ve been in a hurry, at a stoplight when the light changed and the person in front of you just did not move. I also know that you have asked someone to help you do something because of a personal need or deadline and while they may have embraced the idea, there was little response or no action on their part. Or the one that is probably the most disconcerting is looking back on something that you invested a lot of time and energy in that just flopped or was a pure waste of time and money. You wish you had known there was a better route for getting to your destination, someone else who was willing and able to help you with your task or that that idea was not so good after all. Trial and error, win some lose some, or “I wish I had of known” become part of why you are where you are now. Makes you wish you had a crystal ball, doesn’t it?

What you may not realize is that you have a friend who has the capacity to change things beyond your wildest imagination. I know you are familiar with the main attributes of God: omniscient, omnipotent, and ubiquitous. We tend to forget the forth one—He exists outside of time—because we simply can’t think of something as having no beginning and no end. Part of our struggle is that we live in and are bound by time and space as it pertains to a small area of a single planet called Earth. Deity has the ability to operate and move about in multiple Kingdoms without regard to time. Without time you and I would appear lost because we use reference points to denote our birth and death—our lives—otherwise we would not exist. God needs no reference point because of His master plan and ability to handle every contingency by moving into and out of time and space with ease. Time is irrelevant.

I feel that we limit our resources from God because of our concept of linear time and accessibility to the Kingdom. God has the ability to rule and reach both inside and outside of what we understand as a continuum beginning to end. This is part of the reason God is omniscient and ubiquitous. Without time you and I would appear lost because reference points to denote our birth and death—our lives—would not exist. Could it be that the prayer of thanks that offered after our child was healed was the reason for the healing? Could it be that the prayer of gratefulness for your spouse, offered last night, was the reason why God did not give us the high school sweetheart we prayed for and Garth Brooks sang about? Did Abraham, Enoch, Noah and others understand this well enough to “call things that weren’t as if they were?” (Hebrews 11)

Kids, I encourage you to rethink the way you pray. Realize since God is not bound by the same parameters we are, you should not be bound with them either. Think about praying outside of the merely the present and future. I know this is going to require some thought – why don’t you give it some?

Love Dad